Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1915 — Superintendent of Monon Schools Assaulted Tuesday. [ARTICLE]

Superintendent of Monon Schools Assaulted Tuesday.

Monticello Herald. Bupt. G. F. Lewis, of the Monon schools, was assaulted by C. A. Thacker, a resident of Monon, on the streets of that town Tuesday and severely beaten about the face and head, having one tooth knocked out. The attack grew out of the expulsion of Ira Fel2, a junior in the high school, by the superintendent about the middle of December, 1914. Attempts to have the boy reinstated since that time led to several conversations between Thaeker and Lewis, and a difference of opinion as to what was said in these conversations seems to have been the immediate cause of this altercation. Thacker met the superintendent on the street as he was returning to his work at noon Tuesday, and after some preliminary conversation blows were exchanged, which resulted in Lewis being knocked down twice. Thaeker was afterward arrested on an affidavit sworn out by Ed Smith and taken before a justice of the peace, where he pleaded guilty to assault and battery and paid a fine of five dollars and costs. Interviews of members of the school board and prominent * people in Monon suggest contradicting motives as to the cause of the trouble, and behind the scenes there may be a very interesting story. The worst trouble about the whole affair is that it does not extend merely to a personal difference between the two but that the public schools of Monon, wljich hatfe borne an excellent reputation, must suffer.